Festive Wreath

It's day 6! We're halfway through the 12 days! So what do you think, do you have a favorite so far? Make sure to leave comments on any of the 12 days posts. I'll be doing a drawing on December 14, (my last 12 days post will be posted on December 12). So you have until December 13 to be entered in the drawing. I'll let you know soon what the prize will be! I will draw one winner from all the comments left on all my 12 days post.

Today I have a festive wreath for you. They showed us this wreath at convention and it's been in my head since then. I really wanted to make it and I finally did. And I love it!! I used the Holiday Lounge DSP.

It did take a little longer than I thought but it was completely worth it! To make it cut your DSP into 6x1 strips, curl them and use straight pins to attach them to a styrofoam wreath. Super easy and super pretty!!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Holiday Lounge DSP

Other: Straight Pins and wreath

Thanks for looking, see you Monday for day 7!!

Sprakling Dasher

It's Day 5! But before we get to the project today I want to remind you to watch the Today Show today in the 4th hour. Shelli Garnder, SU CEO and Co-founder will be on donating over $150,000 in SU products to their annual toy drive!! Don't you just love SU!!!

So onto todays project!

I think this Christmas I have made more sparkly projects then ever before!! This one is especially nice, especially in real life!

I went with complete non traditional Christmas colors for this one. I think it's fun to stray from the 'normal' colors and make something different. I stamped Dasher in heat and stick powder then used some of SU Fine Cosmo glitter. Make sure you use your embossing buddy before you stamp anything on this card, the glitter will go everywhere if you don't. Isn't it just great!!! I stamped the background with the brocade stamp from the Friends 24/7 set. You could also take this card another step and jazz it up with some ribbon or spray it with shimmer paint to give it extra sparkle! This card would also look beautiful with traditional Christmas colors. Red and gold would be really pretty!

Supplies:
Stamp Sets: Dasher, Sparkly and Bright, Friends 24/7
Cardstock: White, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum, Soft Suede
Ink: Versamark, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum
Accessories: Heat and Stick power, Fine Cosmo Glitter, dimensionals, jumbo brads, heat tool

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow for day 6!!!

The Second Noel

Welcome to day 4 of my 12 days of Christmas!!

I'm super excited to show this to you because I LOVE IT!! Even Dan and Logan said they really liked it to. So it's a mega hit then!!! This is the second Noel banner that I've made, the first one here.

Here's the big picture with them all lined up together on the mantle. On Christmas eve we'll take them down to hang stocking. The rope under that mantle in front of the fireplace holds some of Logan's artwork from preschool. I guess I could have taken it down for the picture but it didn't occur to me.

Here's the letters close up. I sprayed every layer with shimmer paint spray so it's really sparkly and pretty. If you haven't tried the shimmer spray on the flock DSP you really should it's sooooo pretty!!!

Supplies:

Cardstock: White, Christmas Cocoa DSP

Accessories: Big Shot, scallop square, Serif Essentials Alphabet, Real Red polka dot ribbon, silver cord, dimensionals, shimmer paint spray

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow for day 5!!!

Dasher

It's day 3 of my 12 days of Christmas!

This one is really pretty and I'm glad I got it. This is the Dasher decor element that's available as a hostess reward in the Definitely Decorative catalog. My original plan was to put him in a frame but it was a lot bigger than I expected. So I decided for now I'll put him on our pantry door in the kitchen. I'll probably get another one and save it until next year and hopefully by then I'll have gotten around to finding a larger frame for him. But I just knew I wasn't going to have time to get to that this season and I really wanted to show him off this year!

The ground that he's on is actually the left over pieces I had from the level 3 birdcage. YES I saved those little scraps and I'm so glad I did. Now he's not a floating reindeer. He looks great in person!

On another note. I just had to share this with you. I made cinnamon raisin bread last weekend and it came out sooooo good I had to take pictures of it!

Doesn't it look yummy!!! We turned it into cinnamon raisin french toast!

YUM!!

NOTE: (added 12/4) The recipe for the bread is actually from the better homes and gardens cookbook (the red and white checkered one). I used the cinnamon roll recipe and made one loaf of bread and about 9-10 cinnamon rolls. Here's the recipe, except I used brown sugar for my filling instead of granulated sugar.

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow!!!

Tutorial Tuesday-Ghirardelli Holder

It's day 2 of my 12 Days of Christmas! I have a really cute Ghirardelli chocolate holder. This would be a great stocking stuffer. You can modify this project to fit tea bags or any other candy or goodie. I've seen variations of these all over and I think they're super cute so I wanted to make my own.
So to get started, you'll need DSP that is 6 1/2 x 5. Score it down the center at 3 1/4. You'll also need sticky strip and linen thread or ribbon and some candy!

To get started, run a strip of sticky strip along the top of your DSP. Lay your chocolates on the DSP one on each side of your score line.

Fold the DSP around the chocolates and seal with sticky strip. Don't make it too tight. You want it snug but you also want to be able to slide your chocolates in and out easily.

Fold it in half at the score line.

Punch or pierce 2 holes along the score line.

Tie it with some linen thread.

I used my rubons to decorate the inside. These rubons are from the Old Saint Nick collection from last year BUT you can still get them online at my demonstrator website in the clearance section!


Slide your chocolates in, one on each side.

Wrap a piece of cardstock around the package, this one is 1x11. I slid mine under the linen thread and tied it together on the side with some ribbon.

I hope you liked it. I'll be back tomorrow for day 3.

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow!

HO HO HO

Welcome to day 1 of my 12 days of Christmas. I have some really exciting projects for you for the next 12 days and I hope you enjoy them all!


Today card came from inspiration from a store bought card---gasp! I didn't buy the card but I saw it in the store and thought, that's cute and I can do it AND I can do it better! Their card was a red base with "Ho, Ho, Ho" written vertically on it and nothing else. So here's my stepped up card.
I used Santa as a base for my card. His beard is made with the scallop circle punch. His shoes are the 1 3/4 inch circle punch and his belt is scraps of brushed gold and black cardstock. I used the Serif Essential Alphabet die to do the Ho Ho and then sprayed them with shimmer paint spray and sponged them with Going Gray ink.

But wait!! isn't it supposed to be Ho, Ho, Ho? Well the 3rd one is inside!

Along with your Merry Christmas greeting. I'm not sure why it looks so fuzzy, it didn't photograph that way so I'm not sure what happened.

Supplies:

Stamp Set: Four the Holidays

Cardstock: Real Red, Whisper White, Basic Black and Brushed Silver

Ink: Going Gray, Basic Black

Accessories: Sponges, Serif Essentials Alphabet dies, Big Shot, Shimmer Paint Spray, Scallop Circle, 1 3/4 inch circle punches, dimesnsionals

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow for day 2!!!

Wonderful Bird

I thought I throw in a non holiday post today, since the whole week has been full of great Christmas and Thanksgiving posts. AND Monday I'll start my 12 days of Christmas posts. Starting on Monday I'll be showing you a different Christmas idea each day for 12 days. It might be a card or gift box or home decor items or maybe even something else! I'm very excited about it, and I may even have some fun surprises so make sure to check back everyday!
I just LOVE today's card though. I have it displayed in my stamp room because it came out so great! I just got this stamp set a week ago or so and this was the first card I made with it and I love it, I can't say that enough!

I stamped the bird twice, once on the card in Chocolate Chip and another time on scrap paper colored with markers. I cut out the bird I colored with markers and attached it to the other piece with a dimensional. It's so pretty!

I love that gray corduroy button with the taffeta ribbon!!!

Supplies:

Stamp Sets: Friends 24-7, Wonderful Favorites

Cardstock: Night of Navy, Brocade Blue, Chocolate Chip, White, Going Gray

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Night of Navy, Brocade Blue ink pads, Old Olive, Brocade Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Close to Cocoa and Night of Navy markers

Accessories: Basic Gray Corduroy buttons and taffeta ribbon, dimensionals

Thanks for looking, see you Monday for the 12 days of Christmas!

The First Noel

Happy Black Friday! Are you headed out to shop or just returning? I'm glad you stopped by, I have some more home decor stuff to show you today. First though I have to thank my upline Amber, she let me borrow her Serif Essentials Alphabet dies. I wouldn't have this or any of the other awesome things I've made with them otherwise! So THANKS AMBER!!
With the alphabet dies I cut out lots of words in different colors so don't be surprised if you see one or two more Noel banners or home decor pieces! I had so much fun making them! I was inspired to make them from Mindy's demo at our meeting last week.
This one is especially nice. I used the flocked DSP from the Christmas Cocoa pack and it really brings out the letters!
The scallop squares are mounted on Soft Suede cardstock that's mounted on the cardboard that comes with the DSP so it's pretty sturdy and will last for many seasons.

It's really pretty! These would make great gifts too!

Supplies:

Cardstock: Soft Suede, Christmas Cocoa DSP

Accessories: Scallop Square Die, Serif Essentials Alphabet dies, Big Shot, silver brads, tombow multi glue, dimensionals, Real Red ribbon

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow!!!

Give Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving!!! I had a really hard time coming up with a Thanksgiving card this year. I'm not sure why. I think I'm in such a Christmas mode that other holidays just aren't coming easily right now. But I am pleased with this card. I used my punches to make a holiday scene. Their arms do not look that big in real life. I had to giggle when the card loaded on my post because it looks like they're wearing oven mitts instead of holding their hands to pray. But trust me the actual card doesn't look like oven mitts.

I think it's really cute and the turkey was so easy to do! It's a wide oval punch with small oval legs and the bones are the horizontal slot punch.

So remember to give thanks today! And for those going shopping tomorrow, make sure you get to bed early-if you're going to bed at all!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Supplies:

Stamp Set: Holiday Best

Cardstock: Sahara Sand, Old Olive, Vanilla, Close to Cocoa, Cameo Coral, Blush Blossom, Basic Gray, Creamy Caramel, Night of Navy, Chocolate Chip

Ink: Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Blush Blossom, Night of Navy pad and marker, Cameo Coral, Old Olive marker

Accessories: Wide Ova, 1 3/8 Circle, Horizontal Slot, Small Oval, and Tag Punches, sponges, silver brads, Old Olive ribbon, crop a dial, dimensionals

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow!!

Joy!

I got a ton of stamping done last weekend and I'm looking forward to tomorrow to stamp too! Possibly alot on Friday too! I doubt I'll get up super early to hit the sales. Most of my Christmas shopping is done anyway. Speaking of early, I was at the mall on Monday and I stopped in the Disney store and the clerk told me they're opening at 3AM!! Oh my word. WHY!? I'm all for saving money but at 3AM I'd so much rather be sleeping! What about you? Will you get up early to hit the sales? Don't forget about Stampin' Up! mega sale going on right now!! If you haven't had a chance to see it head over to my website and check it out. There's a lot of amazing products on sale! And you can shop from the comfort of your home!

For today's project, I spend alot of the weekend working on home decor stuff for the holidays, this is one of the projects I made. It came together so quickly and I just love it!

Right now I have it hanging on my door to my stamp room. I want to make another one to hang on our front door.

To finish it off I sprayed it with the shimmer paint spray so it's so glittery and pretty! The letters are cut out with the bigshot in Soft Suede and Real Red. The red letters are layered on the suede ones just slightly off to give a slight two toned look. It's so pretty in person, I wish the pictures could capture how pretty it is.

Supplies:

Cardstock: Soft Suede, Whisper White, Real Red, Christmas Cocoa DSP

Accessories: Shimmer Paint Spray, Big Shot, Serif Essentials Alphabet Dies, dimensonals, 2 way glue, silver brads, Real Red ribbon

Thanks for looking, see you tomorrow!